The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 49

On the return of the Indian with meats of various kinds, she began to eat voraciously, and soon had regained sufficient courage to reply with spirit to his insolent remarks.

Who acts: Princess, horse · What happens: begin, eat, regain, reply, remark · To what, where: return, sufficient courage

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 return	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 return	det
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Indian	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Indian	det
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 return	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 meats	case
8	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Indian	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 kinds	case
10	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kinds	amod
11	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 meats	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	voraciously	voraciously	ADV	_	16 eat	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 regained	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 regained	cc
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 regained	advmod
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 regained	aux
22	regained	regain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 began	conj
23	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 courage	amod
24	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 regained	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 reply	mark
26	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 regained	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 spirit	case
28	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reply	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 remarks	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 remarks	nmod:poss
31	insolent	insolent	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 remarks	compound
32	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 reply	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Princess		the return of the Indian		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	Princess not said here			voraciously property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	regain	past · perfect	Princess not said here	sufficient courage		soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
4	reply speech: assert	to-infinitive	Princess not said here			with spirit; to horse's insolent remarks	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with spirit=Eventuality to remark=Theme
5	remark		horse				nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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